Re: ERB: decision and conundrum

At 18:58 16/3/97 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:

>CONUNDRUM: 
>
>4. If the '#' is followed only by a string, then.... what?  This should
>   be an IDREF, right?  Maybe.  And if it is, how do you know how to find
>   ID attributes in an XML document out at the far end of a URL?  Can you
>   be sure of finding the appropriate declaration in the internal
>   DTD subset?  Can you be sure of finding the external subset?

If we are allowing #<tei> why not also allow #<id>?
Then we could reserve #CDATA to be used specifically to identify the name of
an anchor in an HTML file referenced from an XML file.
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Received on Monday, 17 March 1997 05:58:58 UTC